"If the three ministers now job-sharing the education portfolio don't present a clear timeframe for the release of all the Building the Education Revolution (BER) costings by the end of the week, then the opposition will be forced to take action when parliament reconvenes," he said in a statement.

Mr Pyne's demand came as a NSW upper house inquiry found that value for money had not been achieved on some BER projects in the state and a number of schools got impractical buildings.

He called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who was Labor's education minister when the BER economic stimulus scheme was first implemented, to make good on her promise to release the costings of each project in every state and territory.

Ms Gillard in August agreed to implement all the recommendations of her taskforce's interim report into the BER, which included the publication of school specific costings data.

Mr Pyne said the federal government's handling of the scheme had contributed to their poor election result.

"The scandalous mismanagement and waste in the program dubbed the school hall rip-off was a key factor in the Labor Party losing its parliamentary majority," he said.